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IANAE(pidemiologist), but it's my understanding that if you fast and hard enough, the critter doesn't have time to adapt. See smallpox.
by ordinary 15y ago
IANAE(pidemiologist), but it's my understanding that if you fast and hard enough, the critter doesn't have time to adapt. See smallpox.
- icegreentea 15y agoSmallpox was eliminated through a vaccine campaign. Resistance against vaccines is generally different from resistance from treatments. For example, since vaccines are in place pre-infection, the amount of target microbes in the body at time of action is pretty low, giving a much higher chance of killing them all. Treatment is usually given after infection, where there will be a large amount of target microbes. This will substantially increase the probability some critter surviving with more resistance genes and then passing them on.